Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Playing musical instruments may improve reading
Learning to play a musical instrument could help to improve children’s reading and their ability to listen in noisy classrooms, according to new research.
“Our eyes and ears take in millions of bits of information every second and it is not possible for the brain to process all of that, so [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Rock Groups
Steven Strogatz has a great column in The New York times on arranging rocks (or any objects) in patterns to better visualize arithmetic.
I’ve been coming back to this particular column the past week and enjoying scanning and rescanning it. I’m still a mathaphobe but I do like patterns so thinking of arithmetic this way [...]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 19th, 2010 2 Comments »
Ten words you need to stop misspelling
The Oatmeal has a way with words, and diagrams. You can buy posters of this page here.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Aug 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Sony launches Amazon challenger
Sony has launched a wireless e-reader which allows users to download electronic books on the go.
Amazon Kindle, Sony e-Reader and no doubt Apple will have a product in this category soon. All of this is very good for those of us who have a hard time reading “traditional” books the traditional way.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
John Siracusa on reading in the digital age
This is a fantastic article because it covers the entire history of e-books, both as content and as devices. Very well thought out and written.
[via Daring Fireball]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Reading Isn’t Fundamental
Alan E. Kazdin and Carlo Rotella have an excellent piece in Slate on how to help your child learn to read.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Telescopic Text
Click away on the text. Expand the sentence. Have fun.
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Feb 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Everyone Can Read
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Jan 5th, 2008 No Comments »
keybr.com lets you test your speed and accuracy on the keyboard. I’m such a slow reader it kills my speed which is much better when I’m simply writing without the reading, like now.
[via kottke.org]
Posted in Reading, Writing, and Math on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Free Rice is a vocabulary game. For each word you get right they’ll donate 20 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger.
Dang, where the heck do they find all these words?!
[via Amy Mindell]